Biden warns Putin ‘will pay’ for invasion | First Thing
President bans Russian aircraft in US airspace as bombardment of Ukraine intensifies. Plus, the teen tracking oligarchs
Good morning.
Joe Biden announced last night that the US was banning Russian aircraft from its airspace and promised to go after Russian oligarchs in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.
What do we know on day seven of Russia's invasion? Several cities are under heavy bombardment again and thousands of Ukrainians are trying to leave Kyiv, our correspondent in Kyiv reported, as Russia's defence ministry warned it plans to strike targets there. Here's everything we know so far.
What else is happening? Researchers are gathering mounting evidence that the Russian military is committing war crimes with deadly attacks on civilians and the use of cluster munitions.
What else did he talk about? Biden outlined a unity agenda" that he said could find bipartisan support. The list included combatting the opioid epidemic, expanding mental health resources, supporting US veterans and supercharging the moonshot" effort to fight cancer.
Was it a speech for the ages, with a ringing phrase that will define this moment of global peril? Perhaps not, writes David Smith. But it will have made millions of people in America and around the world grateful that the man at the podium was not Donald Trump.
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